No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel JohnsonThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonNow ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.
Samuel JohnsonThat there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow for the most part that rejection to be wrong, but charge the fault upon the unskilful manner in which it is given; they admit the efficacy of the medicine, but abhor the nauseousness of the vehicle.
Samuel Johnson