More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"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."
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."