Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Samuel JohnsonThe care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Samuel JohnsonThe safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.
Samuel Johnson