Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. Samuel Johnson cannondangerdebt Change image and share on social
What is easy is seldom excellent. Samuel Johnson easyexcellentseldom Change image and share on social
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Samuel Johnson ambitiondesireend Change image and share on social
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. Samuel Johnson advancecuriositydivert Change image and share on social
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson animalenjoymentequality Change image and share on social
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson consciousinferiorityitaly Change image and share on social
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson acquaintancedaylose Change image and share on social
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson classicalliteraryman Change image and share on social
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson breakfelicityflight share on social
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson desireenjoymentman Change image and share on social
