Quotes from Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
- Samuel Johnson
God bless you, my dear!
- Samuel Johnson
[Sunday] should be different from another day. People may walk, but not throw stones at birds. There may be relaxation, but there should be no levity.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Samuel Johnson
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Samuel Johnson
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
- Samuel Johnson
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- Samuel Johnson
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- Samuel Johnson