The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. -Samuel Johnson Birthday
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. -Samuel Johnson Strength
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. -Samuel Johnson Women
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. -Samuel Johnson Trust
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. -Samuel Johnson Happiness
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. -Samuel Johnson Money
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. -Samuel Johnson Knowledge
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. -Samuel Johnson Courage
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. -Samuel Johnson Happiness
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. -Samuel Johnson Power
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. -Samuel Johnson Future
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. -Samuel Johnson Courage
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. -Samuel Johnson Home
