2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.