2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Particulars are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.