Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that a...lthough we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant. Warmth will, no doubt, make a considerable difference. Men of affectionate temper and bright fancy will coalesce a great deal sooner than those who are cold and dull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search fo...r them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »