No man ever yet became great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
— Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
— Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.
— Samuel Johnson
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
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
— Samuel Johnson
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.
— Samuel Johnson
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
— Samuel Johnson