It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.
Samuel JohnsonThe balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
Samuel JohnsonWhen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonIt is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.
Samuel Johnson