Samuel Johnson

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

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

— Samuel Johnson

#life #london #man #tired

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#any #because #greatest #haven #may

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#makes #man #mistake #thoughts #wine

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

— Samuel Johnson

#disappointed #either #expect #expectation #expecting

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

#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#changing #disposition #efforts #fruitless #happiness

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#imagination #instead #may #reality #regulate

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#born #complaining #crying #dies #disappointed

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ever #first #must #nothing #objections