Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Love Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence,...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor,...

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor,...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is...

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to...

It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and...

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and...

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals;...

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals;...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without...

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without...

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought...

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought...