Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

We need much less than we think we need.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.