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...
crowns half morality
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.
truth yield people
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
two use may
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.
daughter son ideas
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
enlargement language stability
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
peace war purpose
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
happiness trying care
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
happiness government giving
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
pain expression pleasure
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
pain soul way
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
oxen fats should
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
world
I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
advice littles good-advice
Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
office advice vehemence
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless. For what is the advice that is commonly given? A few general maxims, enforced with vehemence, and inculcated with importunity, but failing for want of particular reference and immediate application.