15 Quotes by William Samuel Johnson

You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country....

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Whatever you have, spend less.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.