More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."
"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."
"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."
"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."