Clergyman's

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

Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired.
- Samuel Johnson

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,
For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.
- Samuel Johnson

The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- Samuel Johnson