More From Samuel Johnson
- "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."
- "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
- "There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
More In Great
- "Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."― Simone Weil
- "The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."― Albert Schweitzer
- "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."― Voltaire