Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
Samuel JohnsonMost minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
Samuel JohnsonA transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.
Samuel Johnson