I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it
Samuel JohnsonAll censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel JohnsonWe have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel JohnsonThe mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
Samuel Johnson