Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Those that have loved longest love best. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...