Samuel Johnson

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that read more

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

London! the needy villain's general home,
The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!
With eager thirst, read more

London! the needy villain's general home,
The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!
With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,
Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.