Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Samuel Johnson

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Samuel Johnson

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Samuel Johnson

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Samuel Johnson

If what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome if it makes us wiser.

Samuel Johnson

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson

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