Samuel Johnson

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

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.