Samuel Johnson

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Samuel Johnson

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Samuel Johnson

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Samuel Johnson

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Samuel Johnson

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Samuel Johnson

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson