Samuel Johnson

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his work and in that work he does what he wants to do.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?