Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
