Samuel Johnson on Writing
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson on Writing
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Quotations Qoute by Samuel Johnson
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Quotations Qoute by Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson on Art / Music
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson on Mankind
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson on Friendship
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson on Confidence
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson on Appearance / Attitudes
Clear your mind of can't.
Samuel Johnson on Appearance / Attitudes
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.