When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

More Quotes By Samuel Johnson

• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the...
• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
• Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
• When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
• Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return...
• A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who,...
• When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all...
• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his...
• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity;...