2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

Occupation alone is happiness.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

No one ever became great by imitation.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.