Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
Samuel JohnsonIt is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
Samuel JohnsonI will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Samuel JohnsonHe that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
Samuel JohnsonThey whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.
Samuel Johnson