Samuel Johnson Quotes on Emotion
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
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He was a very good hater.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
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A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.