James Boswell quotes Born: 10/29/1740 Died: 05/19/1795

• I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. (James Boswell) [character]
• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. (James Boswell) [moment]
• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. (James Boswell) [find]
• There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. (James Boswell) [laughter/love]
• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. (James Boswell) [think/conversation]
• A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. (James Boswell)
• A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. (James Boswell)
• A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. (James Boswell)
• He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. (James Boswell)
• I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (James Boswell)
• I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. (James Boswell)
• I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson. (James Boswell)
• If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. (James Boswell)
• It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. (James Boswell)
• We must take our friends as they are. (James Boswell)
• What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading! (James Boswell)

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