Samuel Johnson Employment Quotations

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.