Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Resting at your shore fills me with a peace, as if I’ve always been here. My cells resonating with the element of you, boundaries diffuse as one.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.