Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will…

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is…

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise…

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so…

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong…

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes…

The true art of memory is the art of attention…

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it…

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence…

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle…

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his…

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either…

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them…

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from…

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self…