A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel JohnsonIf we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Samuel JohnsonHe that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.
Samuel JohnsonI had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson