Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

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. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

Men only become friends by community of pleasures. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min - Samuel Johnson. View more images...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking - Samuel Johnson. View more images...