Samuel Johnson

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Samuel Johnson

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.

Samuel Johnson

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Samuel Johnson

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Samuel Johnson

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Samuel Johnson

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Samuel Johnson