Samuel Johnson Therefore Quotations

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.