What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do... - Samuel Johnson

"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."

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."

"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."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."