Quotes from Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Samuel Johnson
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
- Samuel Johnson
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- Samuel Johnson
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
- Samuel Johnson
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
- Samuel Johnson
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
- Samuel Johnson
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
- Samuel Johnson
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- Samuel Johnson
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Samuel Johnson
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
- Samuel Johnson