All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON






