No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room,…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the...

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket;...

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket;...

Money confounds subordination

Money confounds subordination

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its...

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its...

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than...

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than...

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children,...

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children,...