Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit: but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves; we resolve to do right, […]
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
He that too early aspires to honors must resolve to encounter not only the opposition of interest, but the malignity of envy. He that is too eager to be rich generally endangers his fortune in wild adventures and uncertain projects; and he that hastens too speedily to reputation often raises his character by artifices and […]
I have now learned, by hunting, to perceive, that it is no diversion at all, nor ever takes a man out of himself for a moment: the dogs have less sagacity than I could have prevailed on myself to suppose; and the gentlemen often call to me not to ride over them. It is very […]
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
A jest breaks no bones.
There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
