2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Virtue is too often merely local.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.