Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
- Samuel Johnson
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
- Samuel Johnson
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
- Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
- Samuel Johnson
To do nothing is in everyone's power.
- Samuel Johnson
To do something is in every man's power.
- Samuel Johnson
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
- Samuel Johnson
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
- Samuel Johnson
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
- Samuel Johnson
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
- Samuel Johnson