Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

The world is its own magic.