Samuel johnson

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.