Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Samuel Johnson

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

Samuel Johnson

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little.

Samuel Johnson

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Samuel Johnson

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Samuel Johnson