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
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson