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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."