Samuel Johnson Remembered Quotations

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

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered

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

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.