Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
Samuel JohnsonTo those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
Samuel JohnsonThat kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
Samuel JohnsonThey that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.
Samuel Johnson