Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Samuel JohnsonThat observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Samuel JohnsonThe hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
Samuel JohnsonThe purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
Samuel JohnsonAn Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson