Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
Samuel JohnsonFriendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Samuel JohnsonDon't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson