Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau