Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
wise men thinking
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
money men thinking
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
money tree fruit
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
retirement pits actors
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
life art novelty
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
sorrow together would-be
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
deceit chill benevolence
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
life worry littles
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
life woe states
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
life humble thinking
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.
life strong history
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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.
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.