I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Samuel JohnsonMen are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
Samuel JohnsonAmong those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.
Samuel Johnson