Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
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 JohnsonCriticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Samuel JohnsonEvery government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
Samuel Johnson