"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." ― Samuel Johnson Topic(s): Courage Tags: flights, natural More From Samuel Johnson "No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction." "A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice." "Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich." More In Courage "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."― Thornton Wilder "You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too."― Paul Robeson "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."― Christopher Morley