What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. — 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
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 love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — 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
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — 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
