A. Johnson
A. Johnson
daughter son heaven
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
garden animal cows
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
church offensive merriment
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
sincerity calculating
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
perseverance art looks
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
opponents belief argument
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
pain home journey
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
jealousy husband past
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
names add reputation
Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
fame ends artificial
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
lasts truth-will-prevail reason
Reason and truth will prevail at last
employment dresses would-be
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy
literature raised
I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature
wise ignorance flow
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise