One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
Samuel JohnsonFew enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel JohnsonExactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.
Samuel Johnson