Samuel Johnson Quotes About Health

• To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religious, Health, Exercise

  "The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772".

• Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Health, Crime, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.84

• Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Running, Health, Broken

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.270

• Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Health, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.100

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