Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
Samuel JohnsonThe purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
Samuel JohnsonBut the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.
Samuel JohnsonIt is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.
Samuel Johnson