It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonOur minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
Samuel JohnsonSorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.
Samuel JohnsonIf I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Samuel Johnson