No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel JohnsonThe necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
Samuel JohnsonAll violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.
Samuel Johnson