How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Samuel JohnsonWere it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel JohnsonIt is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.
Samuel Johnson