A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – 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
The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson