Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'
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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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He was a very good hater.
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
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I refute it thus.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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God bless you, my dear!
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In misery's darkest cavern known,His useful care was ever nighWhere hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,And lonely want retir'd to die.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.
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I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.