There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
Samuel JohnsonThere is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
Samuel JohnsonIf misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
Samuel Johnson