Samuel Johnson

"To live is to choose but to refuse to choose is also to choose."

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up as the superstitions of our childhood."

"The world is divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable."

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

"If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding external matters."

"The pen must at length comply with the tongue."

"Nothing so much marks the character of a man as what he laughs at."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"All excellence has a price."

"The mind is never full."

"You must not be surprised to find that your parents are fallible."

"No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his taste in the spring."

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything."

"The true test of civilization is not the census nor the size of cities, but the kind of man that the country turns out."

"Language is the dress of thought."

"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed."

"An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

"No man was ever great by imitation."

"The great source of pleasure is variety."

"Men are not philosophers in their hearts."

"A man's own observation, what he comes to see and feel, is gain."

"To live without feeling is to die without knowing you live."

"Every human heart has its secrets."

"We are more often afraid than hurt."

"Money cannot buy happiness but it gives you all the options."

"The writer only begins a book; the reader completes it."

"A man is generally better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."

"Health is a blessing that money cannot buy."

"The duty of a journalist is to make all the news interesting and all the truth readable."

"Doubt is the key to all knowledge."