Samuel Johnson

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Samuel Johnson

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Samuel Johnson

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Samuel Johnson

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Samuel Johnson

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Samuel Johnson

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Samuel Johnson

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Samuel Johnson

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Samuel Johnson

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Samuel Johnson