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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."