Quotes from Samuel Johnson
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Samuel Johnson
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
- Samuel Johnson
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
- Samuel Johnson
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Samuel Johnson
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
- Samuel Johnson
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
- Samuel Johnson
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
- Samuel Johnson
Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.
- Samuel Johnson
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
- Samuel Johnson
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
- Samuel Johnson