Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel JohnsonIgnorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Samuel JohnsonSince life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
Samuel JohnsonYe who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Samuel Johnson