That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembere... - Samuel Johnson

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

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

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"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 mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."