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 (1709 - 1784)
Source: Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Contributed by: Zaady
That saw the manners in the face.
Source: Lines on the Death of Hogarth.
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Source: J. Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1784.
Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. v. 1763.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Source: Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Vol. iii. Chap. iv.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iv. 1776.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Source: Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. i. 1775.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Source: Rasselas
As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.
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