Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

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

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.