Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives…

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do…

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently…

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth…

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing…

The future is purchased by the present…

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are…

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not…

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy…

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be…

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction…

Exercise is labor without weariness…

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a…

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him…

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always…