Home / Quotes / Quote by Samuel Johnson

Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.”

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Work

The Rambler: In Four Volumes

This comprehensive work is a compilation of essays and travelogues, providing readers with a detailed account of the author's observations and experiences from various journeys and encounters. more

Author

Samuel Johnson was an English writer, poet, and lexicographer, renowned for his comprehensive English dictionary, 'A Dictionary of the English Language', published in 1755. His distinctive writing style and wit have cemented his place as a significant figure in the history of English literature. more

You May Also Like

“Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.”

Ifs States Pain Fall Pleasure Ease Rising Pain And Pleasure

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.”

Common Judging Taxes Paid Property Commodity Hateful

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.”

Ends Expectations Disappointment

Book:Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”

Ifs Children Home Would Be School Funny Mother Parent Madness Filled Parenting Insane Being A Mom Asylums Away From Home Funny Parenting Insane Asylum School Time

Author:E. W. Howe

“Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.”

Wells May Pleasure Sacrifice Conscience Deserve

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.”

Men Should Children Care Age Enjoy Wise Wife Childhood Danger Gratitude My Friends My Wife My Children Resentment Virtuous Provoking Distress Pious Treachery Unkindness Benediction

Book:Rasselas

Source: Rasselas

“If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.”

Ifs Mind Valuable Useless

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.”

Ignorance Criminals

Book:Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.”

People Ifs World Should Writing Littles Reading Strange

Author:Samuel Johnson

“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.”

Source: Works: ¬The Rambler