Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.
Samuel JohnsonWine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
Samuel JohnsonTo neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
Samuel JohnsonI wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
Samuel JohnsonBy those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
Samuel Johnson