James Boswell

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.