Thomas Irvin

“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

“Kissing a woman's hand is never the right thing to do; it is either too much or too little.”
― Melchior Lengyel

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