Samuel Johnson Quotes

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

I can’t drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.