Samuel Johnson

What is easy is seldom excellent.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.