Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. Samuel Johnson valuable healthy caring I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. Samuel Johnson political reading men When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. Samuel Johnson land sea men The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned. Samuel Johnson gold temptation integrity Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson confidence motivational life Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. Samuel Johnson women fear thinking Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. Samuel Johnson wine evil giving He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson honesty courage work All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. Samuel Johnson argument poverty evil Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. Samuel Johnson rich-poor frugal would-be Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson philosophy history art Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson wedding marriage pain No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance. Samuel Johnson arrogance imagination expectations Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. Samuel Johnson unions passion sorrow Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Samuel Johnson useless genius long Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson lexicographer criminal-mind being-yourself He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson brightness sunshine shade Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Samuel Johnson freedom-of-speech men thinking All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. Samuel Johnson statistics intellectual work Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. Samuel Johnson influence mind hands
