James Boswell Quote

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.


The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone (ed. 1821)


Friendship, the wine of life, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom ...

Friendship, the wine of life, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom ...

Friendship, the wine of life, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom ...

Friendship, the wine of life, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom ...