All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.... Friendship
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you… Adept
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie… Abilities
- All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. All
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which… Commit
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and… Convenience
- Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed. Build
- Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. Bookish
- Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality. Frugality
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal. Causes
- The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. Act
- Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. Compounded
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and… Amusement
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of… Contributes
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will… Acquisition
- Where there is no difficulty there is no praise. Difficulty
- No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in… Beholds
- All industry must be excited by hope. All
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless… Along
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… Ad
- When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves… Anxiety
- When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. Any
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. Attempt
- An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. Age
- Avarice is always poor. Always Poor