Maxioms by Samuel Johnson
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
As any action or posture long continued will distort and
disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled read more
As any action or posture long continued will distort and
disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and
contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us read more
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
