Samuel Johnson quotes

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”

— Samuel Johnson

“A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.”

— Samuel Johnson

“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.”

— Samuel Johnson

“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”

— 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

“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”

— Samuel Johnson

“What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.”

— Samuel Johnson