What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson difficultdesigneasy No man was ever great by imitation. Samuel Johnson imitationmen The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. Samuel Johnson staircasesworld No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. Samuel Johnson moneyhousehome A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson readingeducationmen A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson foodmenthinking A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson carpe-diemidentitymen We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more. Samuel Johnson wanthappiness 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 exercisehappinessart 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 progresscuriosityhappiness To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Samuel Johnson wretchedcomplaintshappiness 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 excesspainhope Round numbers are always false. Samuel Johnson statisticsnumbersscience In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. Samuel Johnson learningwisdomtruth Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. Samuel Johnson heartachebroken-heartsoul The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. Samuel Johnson positive-thinkingoptimisticyears Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. Samuel Johnson gratitudecheerpeople There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. Samuel Johnson fathers-daydadstruggle 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 insultresentmentrevenge 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-singlebeing-yourselfbelieve
