Samuel Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

People sleep, and when they die they wake.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.