I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.
Samuel JohnsonI inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
Samuel JohnsonAdvice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.
Samuel Johnson