I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. — Samuel Johnson
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
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. — Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. — Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. — Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. — Samuel Johnson
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. — Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. — Samuel Johnson
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Samuel Johnson