The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it. – Samuel Johnson
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b