Samuel Johnson
168 quotations
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
He who praises every body, praises nobody.