Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

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

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.