Samuel Johnson

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.