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Quotes by Samuel Johnson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.— filed under Beneficence
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.— filed under Falsehood
From Thee, great God! we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.— filed under God
The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.— filed under Habit
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.— filed under Hypocrisy
He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.— filed under Ignorance
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.— filed under Infidelity
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life, Be ashamed of nothing but sin.— filed under Ministers
They also serve who only stand and wait. Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.— filed under Waiting