All Samuel Johnson Quotes
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to… Advance
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high… Appearing
- The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. Desire
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. Art
- He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. Bring
- To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Alike
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so… Attention
- Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. All
- Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. Exhaust
- All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. All
- Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come. Borrow
- Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and… Believe
- No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it. Enjoy
- 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. All
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when… All
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses… Affords
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. Captivity
- Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less… Deluded
- The triumph of hope over experience. Experience
- When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. Endeavor
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. Courage
- Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Another Confesses
- Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. Afterwards
- Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. Bear
- Learn that the present hour alone is man's. Alone