I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj