Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
- Samuel Johnson
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- Samuel Johnson
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
- Samuel Johnson
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
- Samuel Johnson
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation
- Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
- Samuel Johnson
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.
- Samuel Johnson
All envy is proportionate to desire.
- Samuel Johnson
Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
- Samuel Johnson