Samuel Johnson

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Whatever you have spend less.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

If you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejections.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.