Why, sir, a man grows better humoured as he grows older. He improves by experience. When young, he thinks himself of great consequence, and every thing of importance. As he advances in life, he learns to think himself of no consequence, and little things of little importance; and so he becomes more patient, and better pleased.
Quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell
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Original Citation
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 14 Sept. 1773.
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Current Citation
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.
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