Samuel Johnson
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”
“A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.”
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”