There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Interpretation
Earning money can be a morally acceptable and innocent pursuit.
In this quote, Samuel Johnson suggests that one of the most innocent ways a person can spend their time is by engaging in work or activities that lead to earning money. It implies that pursuing financial stability is not inherently wrong and can be seen as a positive endeavor, highlighting the importance of work and economic contribution in a person's life.
In practice
In an inspirational speech about career choices.
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.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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