As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
Samuel JohnsonNow ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.
Samuel JohnsonEvery man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
Samuel JohnsonThe maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
Samuel Johnson