Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – 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. – Samuel Johnson
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
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. – Samuel Johnson
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. – Samuel Johnson
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. – Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. – Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. – Samuel Johnson
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. – Samuel Johnson
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. – Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. – Samuel Johnson
