Quotes from Samuel Johnson
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
- Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- Samuel Johnson
Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
- Samuel Johnson
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
- Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
- Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
- Samuel Johnson
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
- Samuel Johnson
Pleasure itself is not a vice
- Samuel Johnson
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense
- Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
- Samuel Johnson