William Samuel Johnson Quotes


"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Curiosity, First, Passion)

"Whatever you have, spend less."
- William Samuel Johnson
"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Courage, Hope, Will)

"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Wisdom, Folly)

"It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Fate, Man)

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Hope, Comfort, Poverty, Sickness)

"refuge of scoundrels"
- William Samuel Johnson
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Happiness, Hope, World)

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."
- William Samuel Johnson
(Related: Strength, Adversity)