Samuel Johnson quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson)
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. (Samuel Johnson)
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Samuel Johnson
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. (Samuel Johnson)
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson