Samuel Johnson

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

Yet still he fills affection's eye,
Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

Yet still he fills affection's eye,
Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow read more

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he
does of his dinner.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he
does of his dinner.