Samuel Johnson

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

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Language is the dress of thought.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

The more natural, the better.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.