Samuel Johnson

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.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

What we become depends on what our fathers teach us.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

For who is pleased with himself.