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

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."

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

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

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