It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonTruth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Samuel JohnsonLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel JohnsonTo dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
Samuel JohnsonLet us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
Samuel Johnson