Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONDeviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIgnorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSONFrom thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSONYou hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
SAMUEL JOHNSONTruth allows no choice.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON