A. Johnson
A. Johnson
ambition home desire
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
secret action motive
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
life wise ambition
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
funny life being-yourself
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
conversation impression remembered
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
travel jail sailing
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
rainy-day advice enemy
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
horse pet criticism
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
inspirational education appreciation
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
advice welcome wanted
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
daughter mother done
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
admiration made charm
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
life littles states
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
knowledge curiosity might
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.