Quotes by Samuel Johnson

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of...

#Health

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

#Life, #Morality, #Wit

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

#Painting

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

#Conversation, #Gentlemen, #Questioning

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will...

#Law And Lawyers

Nudists are people who wear one-button suits

#Freedom

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the...

#Freedom

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

#Freedom

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

#Love, #Pleasure

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled...

#Love, #Pleasure

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

#Mankind

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the...

#Mankind