Quotes from Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- Samuel Johnson
A jest breaks no bones.
- Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
- Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
- Samuel Johnson
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
- Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
- Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Samuel Johnson
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
- Samuel Johnson
With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
- Samuel Johnson
All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
- Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- Samuel Johnson