Samuel Johnson Quotes on Morality
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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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.
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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.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Pleasure of itself is not a vice.