Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.