To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Difficulty Quotes, Mankind Quotes

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation...

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is...

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek...

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

If you would shut up any man with any woman, so as to make them...

The great source of pleasure is variety

The great source of pleasure is variety

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted...

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted...

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest...

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness...

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals...

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense....