I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thi... - Samuel Johnson

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

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

"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."

"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."