June 27– Sir Francis Bacon’s “Of Friendship” essay (1597)
Summary: Friends are important.
Commentary: Good essay on friendship. Probably doesn't deal with much that isn't familiar to most people (friends are important, good friends aren't afraid to disagree, there's a difference between a friend and an acquaintance, etc.) but good to refresh now and then (and helpful for the people who might not have read a similar one before). I kind of wish it'd been closer to the Cicero piece we read earlier in the year so they were more comparable. Maybe I'll go back and reread both together at some point.
Today's pull quote, to which I have nothing to add:
But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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