Samuel Johnson

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

The remedy is worse than the disease.