There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
Samuel JohnsonSmall debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel JohnsonIn discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
Samuel Johnson