Quotes by William Johnson

• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
• To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
• It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
• He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
• Success is like a dog; it only looks up to those who laugh and throw it some treats!