Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
Samuel JohnsonThe most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
Samuel JohnsonAh! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Samuel Johnson