Samuel Johnson General Quotations

Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and, therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped is one of the general weaknesses which, in spite of the instruction of moralists, and the remonstrance of reason, prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind