Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.

Yet still he fills affection's eye,
Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

Yet still he fills affection's eye,
Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical read more

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption