One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Samuel JohnsonDomestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.
Samuel JohnsonEvery man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
Samuel JohnsonThere is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.
Samuel Johnson