“I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)”

“I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.”

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”