Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel JohnsonThe eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
Samuel JohnsonThat the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel JohnsonIn bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.
Samuel Johnson