2,116 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.