Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
Samuel JohnsonAlmost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
Samuel JohnsonPlenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
Samuel Johnson