There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to […]
Samuel Johnson Quotes
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
A man knows it must be so, and submits. It will do him no good to whine.
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
The usual fortune for complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments.
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance […]
