Happiness Quotes by Samuel Johnson

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

— Samuel Johnson

Occupation alone is happiness.

— Samuel Johnson

For who is pleased with himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

— Samuel Johnson

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

— Samuel Johnson

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

— Samuel Johnson

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

— Samuel Johnson

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

— Samuel Johnson

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

— Samuel Johnson

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

— Samuel Johnson

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

— Samuel Johnson

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

— Samuel Johnson

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

— Samuel Johnson

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

— Samuel Johnson

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if…

— Samuel Johnson

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is…

— Samuel Johnson

Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few…

— Samuel Johnson

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and…

— Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces…

— Samuel Johnson

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit,…

— Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is…

— Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,…

— Samuel Johnson

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and…

— Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when…

— Samuel Johnson

Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the…

— Samuel Johnson

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to…

— Samuel Johnson

“Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can…

— Samuel Johnson

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he…

— Samuel Johnson

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore…

— Samuel Johnson

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or…

— Samuel Johnson

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily…

— Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

— Samuel Johnson

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

— Samuel Johnson

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

— Samuel Johnson

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

— Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

— Samuel Johnson