The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
— Samuel Johnson
The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
— Samuel Johnson
The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
— Samuel Johnson
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
— Samuel Johnson
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
— Samuel Johnson
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
— Samuel Johnson
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
— Samuel Johnson
An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
— Samuel Johnson
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
— Samuel Johnson