“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
– Samuel Johnson
“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
– Samuel Johnson
“In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
– Samuel Johnson
“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.”
– Samuel Johnson
“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
– Samuel Johnson
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
– Samuel Johnson
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
– Samuel Johnson
“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”
– Samuel Johnson
“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
– Samuel Johnson
“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
– Samuel Johnson
“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
– Samuel Johnson
“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
– Samuel Johnson
“You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
– Samuel Johnson
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.”
– Samuel Johnson