Quotes by Samuel Johnson

“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

“Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.”

“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”

“The true art of memory, is the art of attention”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.”

“If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, ...”

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

“To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.”

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely diff...”

“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -”

“men do not suspect faults which they do not commit”

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

“There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.”

“What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops ...”

“I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no g...”

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”