Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.
Samuel JohnsonThe liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
Samuel JohnsonAmong the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Samuel JohnsonTo those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
Samuel Johnson