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

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson

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

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson

What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel Johnson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

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

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson