“Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.”
Samuel Johnson
“When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.”
Samuel Johnson
“…in the gross and scope of mine opinion
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“She closed this observation with a common and trite moral reflection; which, indeed, is very ill-founded, and does great injustice to animals: ‘I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves.’ ‘I wonder, Madam,’ replied the Doctor, ‘that you have not penetration to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.'”
Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale, Johnson Miscellanies
