When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
Samuel JohnsonThe good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.
Samuel JohnsonIf a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Samuel Johnson