There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
Samuel JohnsonIt ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.
Samuel JohnsonOther things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
Samuel JohnsonThere ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
Samuel Johnson