Samuel Johnson

All industry must be excited by hope.

Samuel Johnson

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

Samuel Johnson

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Samuel Johnson

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

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 unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Samuel Johnson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Samuel Johnson

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Samuel Johnson