Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThere must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONGrief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAdvice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLife affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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 JOHNSONDeviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMy dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON