When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel JohnsonNo mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
Samuel JohnsonTo read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
Samuel JohnsonBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.
Samuel Johnson