Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

#Habit

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than...

#Habit

Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true

#Inconsistency

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

#Injustice

A jest breaks no bones

#Jest

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment

#Joy

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

#Ignorance, #Knowledge, #Labor

Language is the dress of thought.

#Language

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

#Language

No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh

#Laughter

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

#Justice, #Revenge

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

#Leisure