Samuel Johnson Quotes
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
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My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character as an author, he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
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That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain,No cold gradations of decay,Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest way.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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A very unclubable man.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
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Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
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He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.