2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.