Clergyman's

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Samuel Johnson

I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.
- Samuel Johnson

As the Spanish proverb says, ""He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him."" So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson

I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; — one, that I have lost all the names, — the other, that I have spent all the money.
- Samuel Johnson

Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.
- Samuel Johnson

Officious, innocent, sincere,
Of every friendless name the friend.
- Samuel Johnson

Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
- Samuel Johnson