The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
Samuel JohnsonTo neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
Samuel JohnsonNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonI would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
Samuel JohnsonI have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Samuel Johnson