Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson