Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
