Quotes by Samuel Johnson

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

#Spirit

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority

#Superiority

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

#Reading

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries...

#Hypocrite

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

#Being Yourself

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he...

#Finding Yourself

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

#Bad Day

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give...

#Bad Day

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

#Being Cheated On

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

#Knowledge

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

#Love, #Witty

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

#Famous, #Life