Samuel Johnson

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Samuel Johnson

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Samuel Johnson

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Samuel Johnson

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Samuel Johnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

Samuel Johnson

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Samuel Johnson

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

Samuel Johnson

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson