Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson View this quote
The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread. Samuel Johnson
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. Samuel Johnson
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. Samuel Johnson
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Samuel Johnson
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It was a miserable thing when the conversation could only be such as, whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that. Samuel Johnson
English poet, biographer, essayist, lexicographer
September 18th, 1709 - December 13th, 1784
