More From Samuel Johnson
- "It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
- "You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you."
- "A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
More In Happiness
- "Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."― Don Marquis
- "We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it."― Emma Thompson
- "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."― Jeremy Bentham