Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.
Samuel JohnsonIt is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel JohnsonA few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel JohnsonWords become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
Samuel Johnson