Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel JohnsonTruth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel JohnsonEven those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
Samuel JohnsonThe desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.
Samuel Johnson