Samuel Johnson

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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.

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’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.