Thomas Irvin

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson

“The sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.”
― Samuel Johnson