The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson Good
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson Hope
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. Samuel Johnson Politics
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson Truth
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson Power
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson Time
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Samuel Johnson Food
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. Samuel Johnson Death
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson Nature
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson Nature
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 difficult. Samuel Johnson Happiness
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson Happiness
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Samuel Johnson Knowledge
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 Happiness
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 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 Great
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson Happiness