5 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Ambition

Samuel Johnson quotes on ambition

54. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

116. Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

122. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

173. Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

193. I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.