A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.
Samuel JohnsonWe have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Samuel JohnsonI doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
Samuel JohnsonThe diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.
Samuel Johnson