Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.
Samuel JohnsonBy forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.
Samuel JohnsonTruth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.
Samuel JohnsonPresumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
Samuel Johnson