Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
Samuel JohnsonAs pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.
Samuel JohnsonGo into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Samuel JohnsonThe truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel JohnsonHealth is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.
Samuel Johnson