Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Quotes

“Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue: pleasures of some sort are necessary to the intellectual as to the corporeal health; and those who resist gaiety, will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite; for the solicitations of sense are always at hand, and a dram to a vacant and solitary person is a speedy and seducing relief.

Remember that the solitary mind is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad: the mind stagnates for want of employment, grows morbid, and is extinguished like a candle in foul air.”
― Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life

“the law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.”
― Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson