2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Hunger is never delicate.