Samuel Johnson Quotes

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Every author does not write for every reader

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I? ~ this latter part is added by Napoleon Hill)

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

AMBRY (A'MBRY) n.s.[a word corrupted from almonry.]1. The place where the almoner lives, or where alms are distributed.2. The place where plate, and utensils for housekeeping, are kept; also a cupboard for keeping cold victuals:a word still used in the northern counties, and in Scotland.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.