A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
Samuel JohnsonIt may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Samuel JohnsonNone but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.
Samuel Johnson