Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should...

#Doubt

What is easy is seldom excellent.

#Doing Your Best

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

#Errors

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

#Effort

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased

#Effort

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

#Ethics

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

#Evil

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels...

#Envy, #Misery, #Pride

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...

#Children, #Eyes, #Family

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

#Example

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it...

#Excellence

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its...

#Excellence