Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. – Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson