Samuel Johnson

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Samuel Johnson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Samuel Johnson