Samuel Johnson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Samuel Johnson

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Samuel Johnson

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Samuel Johnson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Samuel Johnson

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Samuel Johnson