Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
Samuel JohnsonThe wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel JohnsonBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.
Samuel Johnson