No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
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.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The triumph of hope over experience. (on a second marriage)
Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor.
All industry must be excited by hope.
Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of the morrow.
We naturally indulge those ideas that please us. Hope will predominate in every mind, till it has been suppressed by frequent disappointments.
Hope is… very fallacious, and promises what it seldom gives; but its promises are more valuable than the gifts of fortune, and it seldom frustrates us without assuring us of recompensing the delay of greater bounty.
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
