Samuel Johnson Quotes About Reflection

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Reflection, Men

• In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reflection, Years

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

• Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.330

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