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

"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."

"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."

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."