Laurence Target

“It very seldom happens to man that his business is his pleasure. What is done from necessity is so often to be done when against the present inclination, and so often fills the mind with anxiety, that an habitual dislike steals upon us, and we shrink involuntarily from the remembrance of our task. This is the reason why almost every one wishes to quit his employment; he does not like another state, but is disgusted with his own.”
― Samuel Johnson, Complete Works of Samuel Johnson

“But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There”
― Jonathan Swift, Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift

“Converse with almost any man, grown old in a profession, and you will find him regretting that he did not enter into some different course, to which he too late finds his genius better adapted, or in which he discovers that wealth and honour are more easily attained.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of Zeal.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge