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

"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."

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."

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