Samuel Johnson

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Bondage is… subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.