Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. >>

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wron >>

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human >>

Quotations about Youth

Young people need models, not critics... >>

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old >>

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did. >>

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel