No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
Samuel JohnsonNo place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel JohnsonIt is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson