The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book which he should sit down to write the day after his library was burnt to the ground. - Walter Raleigh

I wish I loved the human Race,
I wish I loved its silly face,
I wish I liked the way it walks,
I wish I liked the way it talks,
And when I'm introduced to one,
I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!

The topics of The Rambler are many, but the great majority of them are drawn from the graver aspects of life, and it is when he treats of fundamental duties and inevitable sorrows, bereavement, and disease, and death, that Johnson rises to his full stature.

Definition and division are the watchwords of science, where art is all for composition and creation.