Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though... - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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