Samuel Johnson Quotes & Quotations

Samuel Johnson Quotes

» Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

» Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

» We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

» Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

» Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

» The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

» Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

» Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

» Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

» He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

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