He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
Samuel JohnsonTags: wisdom reading understanding folly
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonHope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel JohnsonIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonWe are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel JohnsonQuotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Samuel JohnsonTags: writers
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
Samuel JohnsonThere is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.
Samuel JohnsonTags: knowledge
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonKnowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.
Samuel JohnsonTags: knowledge
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