Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
Samuel JohnsonYou cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
Samuel JohnsonTo set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
Samuel Johnson