Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
Samuel JohnsonThe care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Samuel JohnsonDifference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?
Samuel Johnson