Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

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

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.