..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Samuel JohnsonFew men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel JohnsonTo excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
Samuel JohnsonSurely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.
Samuel Johnson