“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a
ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned…A man in a jail has more room, better
food, and commonly better company.” – Samuel Johnson, as quoted In James Boswell’s ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (1759).
The Editors’ Quote
