Samuel Johnson

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.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your aim.

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

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

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble
fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the read more

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble
fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of
Shakespeare.