Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

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.

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

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.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.