Samuel Johnson

Quotes

• “The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment,...”
• “Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people w...”
• “There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the gr...”
• “If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, ...”
• “Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, form...”
• “The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with cham...”
• “I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
• “Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
• “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”
• “Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”
• “There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.”
• “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
• “That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
• “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
• “It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”