Since I have become part of the "greater plan" to see if this gets deleted for quotes from early Christians why not another of my favorite ones .......... by Richard Sibbes, from The Soules' Conflict With Itself, 1635
"Happy is he that in his way to heaven meeteth with a cheerful and skillful guide and fellow traveler, that carrieth cordials with him against all fainting of spirit. It is part of our wisdom to make choice of such a one as may further us in our way. Any indifference for any company shews a dead heart. Where the life of grace is, it is sensible of all advantages and disadvantages. How many have been refreshed by one short, apt, savory speech, which hath begotten, as it were, new spirits in them."
I have met several that can be described in this way during my time afield with doubleguns.
