I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson women maturity nature Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. Samuel Johnson leisure use life 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. Samuel Johnson forgiveness family wise When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. Samuel Johnson choices attitude life Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter. Samuel Johnson tongue trust heart 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. Samuel Johnson gratitude country travel The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson uplifting hope happiness 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. Samuel Johnson army men funny To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. Samuel Johnson preparation sleep death Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. Samuel Johnson liberty choices littles The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance. Samuel Johnson inquiry numbers knowledge He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. Samuel Johnson wind life lying Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson learning writing thinking It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. Samuel Johnson wedding marriage people He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce. Samuel Johnson imagination writing memories Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Samuel Johnson intimidating guilt brave Grief is a species of idleness. Samuel Johnson species sorrow grief Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. Samuel Johnson deceit kindness promise Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. Samuel Johnson suffering mind world Knock the 't' off the 'can't.' Samuel Johnson confidence insightful
