Samuel Johnson

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Samuel Johnson

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Samuel Johnson

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

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Samuel Johnson

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Samuel Johnson