Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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

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

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Round numbers are always false.