Quotes Samuel Johnson

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being...

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little differen...

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen....

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your h...

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in ...

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world c...

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to th...

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over t...

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven...

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain character...

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristic...

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there ...

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none...

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes...

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and eve...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion betwee...

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree m...

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that sh...

Exercise is labor without weariness....

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though ...

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally aliv...

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kind...

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseveranc...

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will no...