Quote #25
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one e…
- Round numbers are always false.
- Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
- A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
- He who praises everybody praises nobody.
- He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.