To prize every thing according to its real use ought to be the aim of a rational being. There are few things which can much conduce to happiness, and, therefore, few things to be ardently desired. He that looks upon the business and bustle of the world, with the philosophy with which Socrates surveyed the fair at Athens, will turn away at last with his exclamation, ‘How many things are here which I do not want’.
--Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer, #119, December 25, 1753.
--Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer, #119, December 25, 1753.