Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.
Samuel JohnsonNo estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
Samuel JohnsonIt is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.
Samuel Johnson