I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson..

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author..

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials..

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man..

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church..

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt ….

To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-sub….

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good..

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground..

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy..

We must take our friends as they are..

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition ….

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically..

My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitat….

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (wit….

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends..

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest fo….

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain….

Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in ….

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should..

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seld….