The purpose of an injury is to vex and trouble me. Now, nothing can do that to him that is truly valiant.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Wise married women don’t trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
Among the productions of mechanic art many are of a form so different from that of their first materials, and many consist of parts so numerous and so nicely adapted to each other, that it is not possible to view them without amazement. But when we enter the shops of artificers, observe the various tools […]
Why, Sir, I reconcile my principles very well, because mankind are happier in a state of inequality and insubordination. – All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another.
Many… teach us not to trust ourselves with favorite enjoyments, not to indulge the luxury of fondness, but to keep our minds always suspended in such indifference that we may change the objects about us without emotion… An attempt to preserve life in a state of neutrality and indifference is unreasonable and vain.
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of that, which, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
If the Spaniards, when they first took possession of the newly-discovered world, instead of destroying the inhabitants by the thousands, had either had the urbanity or the policy to have conciliated them by kind treatment, and to have united them gradually to their own people, such an accession might have been made to the power […]
