Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
Samuel JohnsonNo writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.
Samuel JohnsonI will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
Samuel JohnsonAge looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
Samuel Johnson