More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."
"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."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."