It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Hope is necessary in every condition.
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.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.