Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Samuel Johnson

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Samuel Johnson

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude.

Samuel Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Samuel Johnson

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Samuel Johnson

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Samuel Johnson

Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Samuel Johnson

Every author does not write for every reader.

Samuel Johnson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Samuel Johnson