The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — 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
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present. — 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
