Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. – Samuel Johnson
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson