Samuel Johnson Quotes About Impulse

• He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Lying, Wind

• Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Temptation, Merit

  Samuel Johnson (1966). “Johnsonian miscellanies”, Constable

• He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Air, Swim, Different

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.5

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