Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.