Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.