Category: Quote of the Day

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Samuel Johnson

Power and wealth supply the place of each other. Power confers the ability of gratifying our desire without the consent of others. Wealth enables us to obtain the consent of others to our gratification. Power, simply considered, whatever it confers on one, must take from another. Wealth enables its owner to give to others, by taking only from himself. Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous. Youth therefore flies at power, and age grovels after riches.

Samuel Johnson

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

Samuel Johnson

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson