They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
Samuel JohnsonIt is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.
Samuel JohnsonThe happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonGaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
Samuel Johnson