Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson
You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson