Quotes from Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;