Quotes from Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson
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 of hope must be expiated by pain.
- Samuel Johnson
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.
- Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
- Samuel Johnson
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
- Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Samuel Johnson
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
- Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
- Samuel Johnson