Samuel Johnson

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice, has been generally observed ; and many sage positions have been advanced concerning the reasons of this complaint, and the means of removing it.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Samuel Johnson

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Samuel Johnson

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Samuel Johnson

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Samuel Johnson

He who endeavours to please must appear pleased, and he who would not provoke rudeness must not practise it.

Samuel Johnson

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 and multiply the grief which he purposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Health is indeed so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson