No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. ✨ An Introducti…

Samuel Johnson
884 citations
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. ✨ An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain (1756)
Humanity Politics
26

More Author Quotes

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour … ▶
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1 … ▶
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ✨ Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson … ▶
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces … ▶

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. ✨ An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain (1756)

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes