More quotes by 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."
"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."
"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."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."