Quotes Samuel Johnson

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whos...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all ...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the an...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are fo...

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembere...

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that w...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are t...

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors....

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably ...

The future is purchased by the present....

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in ...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distin...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying aw...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately bef...

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure ...

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with t...

The true art of memory is the art of attention....

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can d...

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution....

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality,...

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more th...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is gen...

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and s...

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, r...