Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

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

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.