About Samuel Johnson: Samuel Johnson is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Love is only one of many passions.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
