2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

The business of life is to go forward.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.