Samuel Johnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

- Samuel Johnson

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."

- 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

"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."

- Samuel Johnson

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

- Samuel Johnson

"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."

- Samuel Johnson

"Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire."

- Samuel Johnson

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book."

- Samuel Johnson

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."

- Samuel Johnson

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

- Samuel Johnson

"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"Self—confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."

- Samuel Johnson

"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."

- Samuel Johnson

"Clear your mind of can't."

- Samuel Johnson

"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier."

- Samuel Johnson

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

- Samuel Johnson

"Your aspirations are your possibilities."

- Samuel Johnson

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."

- Samuel Johnson

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

- Samuel Johnson

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"April is a moment of joy for those who have survived the winter."

- Samuel Johnson

""Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.""

- Samuel Johnson

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant."

- Samuel Johnson

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

- Samuel Johnson

"Exercise is labor without weariness."

- Samuel Johnson

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

- Samuel Johnson

"“The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.”"

- Samuel Johnson

"Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

- Samuel Johnson

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

- Samuel Johnson

"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."

- Samuel Johnson