The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
Samuel JohnsonHealth is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
Samuel Johnson