When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
Samuel JohnsonThere may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.
Samuel JohnsonHope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
Samuel JohnsonIn the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
Samuel Johnson