Samuel Johnson

Subordination tends greatly...

Subordination tends greatly...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than...

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The happiest conversation...

The happiest conversation...

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing...

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There are few...

There are few...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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There are some...

There are some...

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are...

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The drama's laws,...

The drama's laws,...

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to...

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That observation which...

That observation which...

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than...

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The happiest part...

The happiest part...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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There is nothing...

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...

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There mark what...

There mark what...

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the...

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The highest panegyric,...

The highest panegyric,...

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of...

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The blaze 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...

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The mind is...

The mind is...

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary,...

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There is, indeed,...

There is, indeed,...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable...

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They are forced...

They are forced...

They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after...

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The liberty of...

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...

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The chief art...

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...

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The only sensual...

The only sensual...

The only sensual pleasure without vice.

Source: Referring to music. Johnsonian...

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There may be...

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...

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They that have...

They that have...

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their...

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The reciprocal civility...

The reciprocal civility...

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

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