What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. – Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson