Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
Samuel JohnsonOne of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.
Samuel JohnsonThe business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
Samuel Johnson