Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson