Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
Samuel JohnsonHappiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
Samuel JohnsonThe fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel JohnsonTags: human-nature inside-out
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Samuel JohnsonThis is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel JohnsonI look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel JohnsonTags: day lost acquaintance
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove
Samuel JohnsonThere can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel JohnsonTags: friendship integrity confidence
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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