The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonHe who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
Samuel JohnsonI have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel JohnsonAmong other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.
Samuel Johnson