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Samuel Johnson Quotes

English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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

Love Want Expectation Expect Again

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Hope Learn Diligence First Ease

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Curiosity Permanent Intellect Most

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Life Nature Happiness Knowledge Will

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Habit Broken Strong Chains Weak Too

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Integrity Knowledge Dangerous Useless

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Man Spring Flowers Scent Taste He

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Nature Sunshine Enjoy Quit Will He

Language is the dress of thought.

Dress Thought Language

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Life World Seeing London Seen Show

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Grief Fresh Where Only Attempt Any

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Happiness Great Art Man Possible

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