A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.


Of Friendship. - Essays (1625)


A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.