Samuel Johnson quotes this time..

• A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
• Where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
• Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
• Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable.
• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not gained upon easier terms.
• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
• We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
• What is easy is seldom excellent.
• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
• 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.
• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.