Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel JohnsonThose authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
Samuel JohnsonWhen a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.
Samuel JohnsonRain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Samuel Johnson