It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
Samuel JohnsonPleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Samuel JohnsonEvery man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel JohnsonNothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.
Samuel Johnson