Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
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.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment
You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment