A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all..

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it..

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence….

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellen….

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself..

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

That favorite subject, Myself..

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

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation..

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

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

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