Samuel Johnson

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

No 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.

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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

Love is only one of many passions.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

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

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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

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