The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
I am, indeed, far from desiring to increase in this kingdom the number of executions; yet I cannot but think, that they who destroy the confidence of society, weaken the credit of intelligence, and interrupt the security of life; harass the delicate with shame, and perplex the timorous with alarms; might very properly be awakened […]
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble.
The calamities of life, like the necessities of nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he wrote it. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves.
It is, perhaps, not considered through how many hands a book often passes, before it comes into those of the reader; or what part of the profit each hand must retain, as a motive for transmitting it to the next.
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention: because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He’ll get better books […]
