Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel JohnsonThe complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.
Samuel JohnsonIt is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.
Samuel JohnsonSir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Samuel Johnson