Books without the knowledge of life are useless…for what should books teach but the art of living?
—Dr. Samuel Johnson, A Johnson Sampler, edited by Henry Darcy Curwen, p. 44.
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson, quoted in Paul Fussell, Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing, p. 238
