He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
Samuel JohnsonAffectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.
Samuel JohnsonSlavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
Samuel Johnson