Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- Samuel Johnson
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
- Samuel Johnson
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
- Samuel Johnson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Samuel Johnson
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
- Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
- Samuel Johnson
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
- Samuel Johnson
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
- Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
- Samuel Johnson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
- Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
- Samuel Johnson
I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...
- Samuel Johnson