Samuel Johnson

Despair is criminal.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Clear your mind of "can't."

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.