All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson on travel
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson on trust
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson on truth
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. Samuel Johnson on truth
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Samuel Johnson on truth
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson on truth
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. Samuel Johnson on truth
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. Samuel Johnson on truth
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Samuel Johnson on truth
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Samuel Johnson on wisdom
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. Samuel Johnson on wisdom
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson on women
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them. Samuel Johnson on ability
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick... Samuel Johnson on advertise
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. Samuel Johnson on ambition
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. Samuel Johnson on avarice
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Samuel Johnson on books
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. Samuel Johnson on courage
In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert. Samuel Johnson on dreams
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Samuel Johnson on epithets