2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep / But hear his death, ye blockheads! hear and sleep.

Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the duties which he neglects, or the crimes that he commits, but for that negligence and irregularity which he may encourage or inculcate. Every man, in whatever station, has, or endeavours to have his followers, admirers, and imitators, and has therefore the influence of his example to watch with care.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

To do something is in every man's power.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.