Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ For a Man must be Inhumane, and Ungrateful, as well as Rude, if he does but so much as Offer, at the Easing, or the Relieving of Himself. The Drift of This Fable at last, is to tell us, that Good Books and Good Thoughts are the Best Company, and that they are Mistaken that think a Wise Man can ever be Alone. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ A Wise Book is much better than a Foolish Companion; And the Dead, in such a case, are much Better then the Living. It is one of the most vexatious Mortifications perhaps, of a Sober, and a Studious Mans Life, to have his Thoughts Disorder'd, and the very Chain of his Reason Discompos'd, by the Importunity of a Tedious, and an Impertinent Visit. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Linking of a Man of Brains and Honesty into a Lewd Insipid Conversation, is Effectually but the Moral of That Tyrant, that Bound the Living, and the Dead together, and yet This is it which the Impertiaent takes for the Relief of Solitude, and the Blessing of That which he calls Company. ”
