There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be...

In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be...

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

The future is purchased by the present.

The future is purchased by the present.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be...

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his...

What ills from beauty spring

What ills from beauty spring

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.