Samuel Johnson

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."

"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."