The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
Samuel JohnsonCowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
Samuel JohnsonTo grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.
Samuel Johnson