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Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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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.
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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