The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
I am, indeed, far from desiring to increase in this kingdom the number of executions; yet I cannot but think, that they who destroy the confidence of society, weaken the credit of intelligence, and interrupt the security of life; harass the delicate with shame, and perplex the timorous with alarms; might very properly be awakened […]
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those we cannot resemble.
The calamities of life, like the necessities of nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he wrote it. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves.
Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and puts down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.
