Tag: Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Samuel Johnson

The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Samuel Johnson

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Samuel Johnson

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Samuel Johnson

Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

Samuel Johnson

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson