Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.