Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. — 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
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused — 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
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — 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
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. — 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
The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
