Samuel johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely...
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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