More From Samuel Johnson
- "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."
- "By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
- "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."
More In Great
- "As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that."― Vera Wang
- "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."― Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."― John Adams