The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Interpretation
A person's character is revealed by how they treat those who cannot benefit them.
This quote by Samuel Johnson suggests that the essence of a person's character is defined by their treatment of others, especially those who are powerless or incapable of providing any advantage in return. It emphasizes the importance of kindness, integrity, and the moral obligation to treat all individuals with respect and compassion, regardless of their status or what they can offer us in terms of benefit or gain.
In practice
In a speech about community service, I might say, 'Remember, the true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.'
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
The engineers of the future will be poets.
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
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