Quote #23125
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...
Category Archives: Samuel Johnson
Quote #23062
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where...
Quote #23078
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Quote #23094
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Quote #23110
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he...
Quote #23126
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into...
Quote #23063
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Quote #23079
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put...
Quote #23095
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I...
Quote #23111
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready...