2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.