Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel…

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings…

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of…

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a…

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend…

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes…

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to…

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the…

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money…

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as…

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do…

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and…

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness…

No man was ever great by imitation…