Quotes by Johnson Samuel
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
To do nothing is in everyone’s power.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow, which I have never seen before.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
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.
Whatever you have, spend less.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
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