Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
Samuel JohnsonMen go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
Samuel JohnsonThe uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.
Samuel JohnsonThe only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson