Richard Whately Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: February 1, 1787 - October 8, 1863
Birthday: February 1
Death: October 8
It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.
source: Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.299
topic: Friendship, Past, Tree, Old Wood, Congeniality
