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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
— Samuel Johnson

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
— Samuel Johnson

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
— Samuel Johnson

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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
— Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
— Samuel Johnson

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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
— Samuel Johnson

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
— Samuel Johnson

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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
— Samuel Johnson

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
— Samuel Johnson

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Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
— Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
— Samuel Johnson

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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
— Samuel Johnson

It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.
— Samuel Johnson

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
— Samuel Johnson

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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
— Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
— Samuel Johnson

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
— Samuel Johnson

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
— Samuel Johnson

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