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Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly...
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than...
The happiest conversation...
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing...
There are few...
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
There are some...
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are...
The drama's laws,...
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to...
That observation which...
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than...
The happiest part...
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
There is nothing...
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or...
There mark what...
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the...
The highest panegyric,...
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of...
The blaze of...
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as...
The mind is...
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary,...
There is, indeed,...
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable...
They are forced...
They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after...
The liberty of...
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find...
The chief art...
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the...
The only sensual...
The only sensual pleasure without vice.
Source: Referring to music. Johnsonian...
There may be...
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to...
They that have...
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their...
The reciprocal civility...
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.