What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

One must be strict even in little things.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.