The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. – Samuel Johnson