Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or w... - Samuel Johnson

"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."