No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson