The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — 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
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