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Samuel Johnson
There is nothing,...
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the...
The whole of...
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
Source: In Webster's...
Truth, Sir, is...
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the...
We love to...
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again...
There is a...
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception...
There is now...
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys...
There are few...
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the...
Virtue is too...
Virtue is too often merely local.
Source: The Idler, no. 53, in Universal Chronicle...
What is written...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Source: Quoted...
This man I...
This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
They teach the...
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Source:...
There are innumerable...
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I...
Walpole was a...
Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: -- /Pitt was a minister given by the people to the...
When I observed...
When I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this'; and then...
To be idle...
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide...
Turn on the...
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes,
Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.
There is no...
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of...
What we ever...
What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
When a man...
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can...
To keep your...
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Source:...