Samuel Johnson

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Samuel Johnson

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Samuel Johnson

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

Samuel Johnson

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Samuel Johnson

A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Samuel Johnson

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

Samuel Johnson

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation – a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

Samuel Johnson

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Samuel Johnson