Samuel Johnson

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.