My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly coextensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister, of wife to husband, are there pertinent, but quite otherwise. Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own. Now this convention, which good sense demands, destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

For a good life, stay in good company. Negative people awaken negative parts inside of us.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Live always in the best company when you read.

In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point.

People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither; — these make the finest company in the world.

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.