Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.
Samuel JohnsonWhen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel JohnsonDifferences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
Samuel JohnsonCommerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
Samuel Johnson