The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
Samuel JohnsonIn youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
Samuel JohnsonIn this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Samuel JohnsonThe use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel JohnsonBut the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
Samuel Johnson