Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. - Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.