Samuel Johnson

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

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

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

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.