Samuel Johnson

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Think with your whole body.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.