Samuel Johnson Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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A jest breaks no bones.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Here closed in death th' attentive eyesThat saw the manners in the face.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.