Quotes from Samuel Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- Samuel Johnson
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- Samuel Johnson
Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
- Samuel Johnson
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
- Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson
The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
- Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
- Samuel Johnson
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson