Samuel Johnson

Virtue is too often merely local.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

The only wealth is life.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!