I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel JohnsonThe luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
Samuel JohnsonLittle would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
Samuel JohnsonTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson