Dr. Samuel Johnson

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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.

No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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