More quotes by Samuel Johnson

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."