Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Samuel Johnson
As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Samuel Johnson
No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
Samuel Johnson
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
Samuel Johnson
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
Samuel Johnson
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.