More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
"There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it."
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."