Rasselas Quotes

“The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Potrai negarmi di accompagnarti, ma non puoi impedirmi di seguirti.”
― Samuel Johnson, Rasselas Prince Of Abyssinia