Samuel Johnson

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.