Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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 -
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 JOHNSON