Samuel Johnson
168 quotations
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Language is the dress of thought.
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Whatever you have spend less.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.