Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful…

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice…

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have…

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance…

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with…

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in…

Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not…

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write…

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other…

The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as…

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth…

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary…

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking…

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions…

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable…