Samuel Johnson

"Better to be too cautious than too bold."

"The luxury of doing nothing is only for the rich."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write."

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."

"There is nothing so little in the world as to be beneath notice."

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."

"The mind is never full—it is always capable of receiving new impressions."

"Books are a triumphal arch and memory."

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"To love is to place our happiness in another's happiness."

"Where hope is, there is courage; where courage is, there is strength."

"The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."

"Solitude is dangerous to reason, but necessary to imagination."

"There is no such thing as an ugly language—only regional dialects."

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess."

"Money is not required to buy one's way into the good society, according to the best families."

"The greatest of human follies is to love money more than life itself."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."

"Every man naturally desires to live as long as he can."

"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of himself as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."