When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.
Samuel JohnsonThe charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.
Samuel JohnsonPoliteness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Samuel Johnson