Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Topic
The collection is interested in what lies beneath surfaces — and in the human tendency to settle for what is immediately visible. La Bruyère watches favor and riches fall away from a man to reveal the foolishness they had been concealing, which no one had noticed before. James notes that the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Twain on the three freedoms — speech, thought, and the wisdom never to use either. Spurgeon: labels are fables. Brandeis: neutrality is sometimes a graver sin than belligerence. The through-line is that superficiality is not ignorance but a choice — the choice to remain at the surface when depth is available and would cost only attention.
Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all
It is wrong always, everywhere and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.