There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
Samuel JohnsonA merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
Samuel JohnsonIn his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.
Samuel JohnsonYou think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
Samuel JohnsonBefore dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.
Samuel Johnson