Quote #101

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
  2. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
  3. His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
  4. He was a very good hater.
  5. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
  6. The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
  7. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
  8. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

All Samuel Johnson quotes