More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"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 is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"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."