Quotes by Samuel Johnson

“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author”

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“Love your wife or husband and show your love by your constant kindness and caresses”

“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love”

“Each Time you step off your path and give someone an act of kindness...then your road to Happiness just got a little Smoother.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”

“Murders out of tune, and sweet revenge grows harsh”

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well”

“And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken”

“Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us”

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

“Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich”

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”

“This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”