Samuel Johnson Toil Quotations

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.