Samuel Johnson

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.