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...
clubs certain assembly
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
littles taste principles
Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.
pain fall rising
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.
judging common hateful
Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
disappointment expectations ends
Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
sacrifice may pleasure
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
wise gratitude children
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.
ignorance criminals
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
reading writing people
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
punishment may rewards
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.
merit fondness
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
support flattery patronage
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
growing-up flower culture
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
community good-things quotations
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.