He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.
Samuel JohnsonRead over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel JohnsonNo man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
Samuel JohnsonA voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
Samuel Johnson