There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel JohnsonThe appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
Samuel JohnsonWe may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
Samuel Johnson