Samuel Johnson

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.