Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel JohnsonThe disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
Samuel JohnsonWhen a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?
Samuel Johnson