Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
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I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
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Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.