Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930