It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel JohnsonThe misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
Samuel JohnsonJust praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.
Samuel Johnson