Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven. Samuel Johnson daughterideasson I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it. Samuel Johnson wishmayadd Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson mindgivingknowledge The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Samuel Johnson solitudemayknowledge A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine. Samuel Johnson luxuryimaginationlife Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time. Samuel Johnson wasting-timewastelife Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. Samuel Johnson elegancemarkmanners If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. Samuel Johnson adequatepunishmentvices Misfortunes should always be expected. Samuel Johnson misfortunesexpectedshould A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion. Samuel Johnson spendingmoneyfirsts Money confounds subordination. Samuel Johnson subordinationmoney The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego. Samuel Johnson moneywisemen Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. Samuel Johnson adversariesoratoryargument Wheresoe'er I turn my view, Samuel Johnson phrasespoetryviews He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised. Samuel Johnson politicspoliticalpast In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. Samuel Johnson regulationpoliticspolitical In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied. Samuel Johnson connectionsofficemen He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. Samuel Johnson resistancepowerwant Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Samuel Johnson powerevillittles The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute. Samuel Johnson punishmentsilence
