Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. — 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
