2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

The future is purchased by the present.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.