8 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Morality

Samuel Johnson quotes on morality

17. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

29. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

37. He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

102. 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.

124. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

130. Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.

142. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

164. Pleasure of itself is not a vice.