Clergyman's

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Samuel Johnson

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
- Samuel Johnson

There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, ""His memory is going.
- Samuel Johnson