Quotes from Samuel Johnson
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
- Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- Samuel Johnson
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
- Samuel Johnson
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
- Samuel Johnson
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
- Samuel Johnson
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- Samuel Johnson
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- Samuel Johnson
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
- Samuel Johnson
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
- Samuel Johnson
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
- Samuel Johnson
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson