My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain [Also, “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had