Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford
Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
The true art of memory, is the art of attention
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.
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