Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson on success
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson on trial
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson on truth
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson on wealth
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 on wealth
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. Samuel Johnson on wealth
Words are but the signs of ideas. Samuel Johnson on words