Maxioms by Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he
does of his dinner.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he
does of his dinner.