I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
Samuel JohnsonThat man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel JohnsonI would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel JohnsonThere is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.
Samuel Johnson