Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
Samuel JohnsonDo not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Samuel JohnsonAll the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonThose who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
Samuel Johnson