The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Samuel Johnson Quotes

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to...

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

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

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

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the...

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to...

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few...

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they...

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they...

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not...

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

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...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries...

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries...

You have debased my child You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence a stench...

You have debased my child You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence a stench...

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.