Samuel Johnson

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.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

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

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.