"Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home."

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The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

— Samuel Johnson