He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation. Samuel Johnson imitation men The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. Samuel Johnson staircases world No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. Samuel Johnson money house home A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson reading education men A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson food men thinking A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson carpe-diem identity men We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more. Samuel Johnson want happiness 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... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself. Samuel Johnson exercise happiness art 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 farther progress. Samuel Johnson progress curiosity happiness To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Samuel Johnson wretched complaints happiness 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 excess pain hope Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson statistics numbers science In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson learning wisdom truth Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. Samuel Johnson heartache broken-heart soul The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. Samuel Johnson positive-thinking optimistic years Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. Samuel Johnson gratitude cheer people There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. Samuel Johnson fathers-day dad struggle What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Samuel Johnson insult resentment revenge There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. Samuel Johnson being-single being-yourself believe Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson music humorous thinking
