They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.
Samuel JohnsonHealth is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.
Samuel JohnsonWe have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Samuel JohnsonThe labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.
Samuel Johnson