2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.