"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest."
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Source: Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)
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