“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
20 quotesAbout Samuel Johnson on Wikipedia
“A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
“No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us.”
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.”
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”
“Resolve to spend a certain number of hours every day amongst your books.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Power pleases the violent and proud: wealth delights the placid and the timorous.”
“Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”
