Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.
Samuel JohnsonThe care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
Samuel JohnsonHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson