Samuel Johnson Quotes on happiness

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... view

By: Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness.. view

By: Samuel Johnson

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure... view

By: Samuel Johnson

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... view

By: Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir.. view

By: Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern... view

By: Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments... view

By: Samuel Johnson

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife.. view

By: Samuel Johnson

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... view

By: Samuel Johnson

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed... view

By: Samuel Johnson

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

By: Samuel Johnson

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

By: 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... view

By: Samuel Johnson

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it... view

By: Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment... view

By: Samuel Johnson

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual... view

By: Samuel Johnson