There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. – Samuel Johnson

There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. – Samuel Johnson
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg