More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"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."