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
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. — 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
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. — 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
