Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Language is the dress of thought.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

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.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.