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Samuel Johnson
Mrs. Montagu has...
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be...
No man is...
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others,...
Politics are now...
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and...
Read over your...
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it...
Patriotism is the...
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Source: In James Boswell, Life of...
Native ability, without...
Native ability, without education is like a tree without fruit.
Source: In...
No mind is...
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our...
Promise, large promise,...
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Source: The Idler, in...
Resolve not to...
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly...
Power is not...
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Nature has given...
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
None but a...
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Source: In Webster's...
Second Marriage: the...
Second Marriage: the triumph of hope over experience.
Source: In Webster's...
Round numbers are...
Round numbers are always false.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol....
Pride is seldom...
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Source:...
No man will...
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail,...
Nothing is little...
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Source: In Webster's...
Silence propagates itself,...
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to...
Seldom any splendid...
Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Ridicule is a...
Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...