The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Samuel JohnsonSo scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
Samuel JohnsonLittle would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
Samuel JohnsonThe coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?
Samuel Johnson