Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. - Samuel Johnson

"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."

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

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