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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
— William Samuel Johnson
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William Samuel Johnson
politician, lawyer, judge, university president
1727 – 1819
William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father and statesman. He attended all of the four founding American Congresses: the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, the Congress of the Confederation in 1785–1787, the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787 where he was chairman of the Committee of Style that drafted the final version of the United States Constitution, and as a senator from Connecticut in the first United States Congress in 1789-1791. He also served as the third president of Columbia University.
All Quotes by William Samuel Johnson
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
— William Samuel Johnson
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
— William Samuel Johnson
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
— William Samuel Johnson
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
— William Samuel Johnson