3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
