I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their charact….

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if ….

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever be….

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind..

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing..

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything..

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation..

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical..

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe..

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion..

That favorite subject, Myself..

In every picture there should be shade as well as light..

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be..

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether..

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiali….

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none..

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer ….

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an a….

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. T….

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion..