What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
Samuel JohnsonHope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
Samuel JohnsonDifferences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
Samuel JohnsonThe mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. The wits of these happy days have discovered a way to fame, which the dull caution of our laborious ancestors durst never attempt; they cut the knots of sophistry, which it was formerly the business of years to untie, solve difficulties by sudden irradiations of intelligence, and comprehend long processes of argument by immediate intuition.
Samuel Johnson