Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
Samuel JohnsonIt is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
Samuel JohnsonPeople have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
Samuel JohnsonNo place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson