3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
