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Danh ngôn của Samuel Johnson (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
The future is purchased by the present.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.