Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Samuel Johnson..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
Samuel JohnsonWere it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson