Quotes from Samuel Johnson

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was