--- title: "8 Favors Quotes By Samuel Johnson" description: "8 Favors quotes by Samuel Johnson. Plus more from Samuel Johnson and more Favors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ce/samuel-johnson-50_accomplishment_youth-enters-the-world-with-very-happy-p_321627.png" --- > [Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/youth-enters-the-world-with-very-happy-prejudices-in-her-own-favor/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ce/samuel-johnson-50_accomplishment_youth-enters-the-world-with-very-happy-p_321627.png) > [Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/few-men-survey-themselves-with-so-much-severity-as-not-to-admit/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/samuel-johnson-50_favors_few-men-survey-themselves-with-so-much-s_409638.png) > [Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/avarice-is-a-uniform-and-tractable-vice-other-intellectual-distempers/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/samuel-johnson-50_avarice_avarice-is-a-uniform-and-tractable-vice_2095795.jpg) > [We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/we-are-easily-shocked-by-crimes-which-appear-at-once-in-their-full/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/samuel-johnson-50_artifice_we-are-easily-shocked-by-crimes-which-ap_2190536.jpg) > [As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/as-to-the-christian-religion-besides-the-strong-evidence-which-we/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/samuel-johnson-50_accustomed_as-to-the-christian-religion-besides-the_2499212.jpg) > [But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/but-perhaps-the-flatterer-is-not-often-detected-for-an-honest-mind-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/847/samuel-johnson-50_deceit_but-perhaps-the-flatterer-is-not-often-d_2588727.jpg) > [When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/when-a-friend-is-carried-to-his-grave-we-at-once-find-excuses-for/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8a/samuel-johnson-50_death_when-a-friend-is-carried-to-his-grave-we_2761818.jpg) > [Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/of-all-kinds-of-credulity-the-most-obstinate-is-that-of-party-spirit/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/784/samuel-johnson-50_all-kinds_of-all-kinds-of-credulity-the-most-obsti_2832844.jpg) ## Other authors on Favors ## More by Samuel Johnson > [The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-size-of-a-man-s-understanding-might-always-be-justly-measured-by/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/pound-st-paul-s-church-into-atoms-and-consider-any-single-atom-it-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [You can never be wise unless you love reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-can-never-be-wise-unless-you-love-reading/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/if-our-aim-is-to-praise-we-should-forget-to-criticize-if-our-aim-is/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/all-theory-is-against-free-will-all-experience-is-for-it/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/had-i-learned-to-fiddle-i-should-have-done-nothing-else/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/it-is-as-foolish-to-make-experiments-upon-the-constancy-of-a-friend/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/resolve-not-to-be-poor-whatever-you-have-spend-less-poverty-is-a/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-basis-of-all-excellence-is-truth-he-that-professes-love-ought-to/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/words-are-daughters-of-earth-but-ideas-are-sons-of-heaven/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-composition-of-shakespeare-is-a-forest-in-which-oaks-extend-in/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-cherubim-were-never-intended-as-an-object-of-worship-because-they/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/nobody-has-the-right-to-put-another-under-such-a-difficulty-that-he/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/that-kind-of-life-is-most-happy-which-affords-us-most-opportunities/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) > [The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-time-will-come-to-every-human-being-when-it-must-be-known-how/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/favors/samuel-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "8 Favors Quotes By Samuel Johnson", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. 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