Top 192 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Love is only one of many passions.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.