Clergyman's

I fly from pleasure,"" said the prince, ""because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
- Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
- Samuel Johnson

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- Samuel Johnson

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
- Samuel Johnson

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David ; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
- Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
- Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
- Samuel Johnson