Samuel Johnson

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Clear your mind of “cant”.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

The end result of all ambition is to be happy at home.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.