Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great ones self. – Samuel Johnson

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it. – Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great ones self. – Samuel Johnson
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. – Samuel Johnson
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. – Jonathan Sacks