The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. – Samuel Johnson
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin