Samuel Johnson

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.

It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

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

An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Round numbers are always false.

He that has much to do will do something wrong.