Tag: Samuel Johnson

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

No man was ever great by imitation.