We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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,...

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

I beg to submit that it is the first.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp,...

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers)

The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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