Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. Samuel Johnson Business
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. Samuel Johnson Equality
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. Samuel Johnson Morning
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson Great
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson Imagination
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson Knowledge
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. Samuel Johnson Nature
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Samuel Johnson Imagination
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson Time
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. Samuel Johnson Home
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson Hope
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson Truth
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson Knowledge
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson Funny
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson Nature