There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

Love or perish we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as Mingle or be a failure.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.

To be social is to be forgiving.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seek it, he must serve it too.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company?

What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

The social, friendly, honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature s plan, And none but he!

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle.