Maxioms by Samuel Johnson
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation read more
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is read more
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
