The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Samuel JohnsonExcellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel JohnsonA thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
Samuel JohnsonIgnorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Samuel Johnson