While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. – Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. – Samuel Johnson
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee