Quotes Samuel Johnson

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from ...

There are charms made only for distant admiration....

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently emp...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, b...

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their grati...

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselv...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by whi...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature a...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from v...

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one ...

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in so...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, ...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and t...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few th...

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep ...

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self....

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the hig...

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in bat...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because...

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never ...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappoint...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms ...

What is easy is seldom excellent....