Samuel Johnson

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Strange – is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

It is possible to be free and loving no matter what your circumstances.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.