The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson
Workers at home who have aching backs and but one writing desk, and that a low one, will find great relief from writing in a standing position (if a recess is out the question), if only for fifteen minutes. My standing desk is a broad mantel shelf. – B.G.A., “Helpful Hints and Suggestions,” in The Writer, August 1887