Quotes by Samuel Johnson

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

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a...

#Libraries

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be...

#Liberty

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform,...

#Justice

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

#Literature

I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a...

#Loneliness

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

#Infidelity, #Loyalty

Round numbers are always false

#Mathematics