Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."
"An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost."
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."
"To be of no Church is dangerous."