Samuel Johnson

“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

“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.”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”

“N'embrasse pas les morts car ils étouffent les vivants.”