Clergyman's

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ... A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
- Samuel Johnson

Here closed in death th' attentive eyes
That saw the manners in the face.
- Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.
- Samuel Johnson

Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
- Samuel Johnson

As with my hat upon my head
I walk'd along the Strand,
I there did meet another man
With his hat in his hand.
- Samuel Johnson