Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson