Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Samuel JohnsonSir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel JohnsonAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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