Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Samuel Johnson
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.