Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
– 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
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
– 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
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
– Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
– 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
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
– Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.