Quotes from Samuel Johnson

Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

The future is purchased by the present.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

The future is bought with the present.

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.