Samuel Johnson

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.