Samuel Johnson Moral Quotations

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.

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

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.