3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
