Johnson Quotes (17 Quotes)

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Language is the pedigree of nations.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary to men of real science, they are tools but more are tools to them.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.