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...
travel home men
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
danger produce security
Security will produce danger.
apology rudeness occasions
There are occasions on which all apologies are rudeness.
pleasure endeavor duty
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
society firsts duty
It is our first duty to serve society.
honesty men want
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.
wise men quitting
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
liberty clamour grants
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
humanity desire pleasure
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
office humanity thousand
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
envy humanity would-be
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
sunshine clouds humanity
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
summer men hands
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.
humanity customs universal
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.