Samuel Johnson

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."

"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."

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

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."

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

"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

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

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

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

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

"Words are but the signs of ideas."