Quotes by Samuel Johnson

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has...

#Conversation

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

#Courtesy

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

#Credulity

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

#Crime, #Deceit

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

#Difficulty, #Praise, #Risk-taking

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

#Difficulty, #Mankind

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with...

#Diligence

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

#Disappointment

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not...

#Dedication, #Excellence, #Perseverance

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

#Discrimination, #Prejudice

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence

#Dependence

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

#Design