Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
Samuel JohnsonLife must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
Samuel JohnsonComposition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
Samuel JohnsonTo mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.
Samuel Johnson