I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Samuel JohnsonCourage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel JohnsonThere are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.
Samuel Johnson