Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel JohnsonNothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Samuel JohnsonNo one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Samuel JohnsonYe who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Samuel Johnson