Quotes from Samuel Johnson
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
- Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
- Samuel Johnson
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
- Samuel Johnson
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
- Samuel Johnson
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
- Samuel Johnson
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.
- Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
- Samuel Johnson
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
- Samuel Johnson
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
- Samuel Johnson