Quotes from Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I? ~ this latter part is added by Napoleon Hill)

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.