Inspirational Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To do something is in every man's power.

— Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward.

— Samuel Johnson

Life protracted is protracted woe.

— Samuel Johnson

Security will produce danger.

— Samuel Johnson

To be of no Church is dangerous.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

— Samuel Johnson

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

— Samuel Johnson

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

— Samuel Johnson

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

— Samuel Johnson

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

— Samuel Johnson

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

— Samuel Johnson

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

— Samuel Johnson

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

— Samuel Johnson

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…

— Samuel Johnson

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

— Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present,…

— Samuel Johnson

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

— Samuel Johnson

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another...

— Samuel Johnson

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

— Samuel Johnson

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not…

— Samuel Johnson

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a…

— Samuel Johnson

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security…

— Samuel Johnson

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

— Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

— Samuel Johnson

For who is pleased with himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

— Samuel Johnson

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

— Samuel Johnson

Grief is a species of idleness.

— Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

— Samuel Johnson

Nature never gives everything at once.

— Samuel Johnson

All industry must be excited by hope.

— Samuel Johnson

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

— Samuel Johnson

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

— Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

— Samuel Johnson