Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or w... - Samuel Johnson

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

"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."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

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

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