A companion for all hours or seasons. This may be said of persons of versatile and easy dispositions, who can accomodate themselves to all circumstances, whether of festivity or of trouble; who with the grave can be serious, with the gay cheerful; and who are equally fit to conduct matters of business or of pleasure: such a man, we are told, was the philosopher Aristippus. "Omnis Aristippum decuit color." Every thing became him, by which enviable qualities, he was always a favoured guest at all tables and in all companies.
