Samuel Johnson

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

For who is pleased with himself.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

The surest poison is time.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.