"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in ...












Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
More Samuel Johnson quotes
"The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
"It is better to live rich than to die rich.
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless effo...
"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.