Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. – Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson