"I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.












Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
More Samuel Johnson quotes
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant...
"He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
"When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
"Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
"Despair is criminal.
"To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
"Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless effo...
"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.
"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.