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...
taken men people
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
pride mind intellectual
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
chiefs policy avarice
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
two distinguished thousand
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.
sorrow may sometimes
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
personal-knowledge forever records
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
greatness men details
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.
writing mind biographies
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
and-love admiration judgment
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.
differences enemy common
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
sheep thieves world
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
envy easy clergymen
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
community may communism
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.
suffering peculiar providence
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.