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...
angel littles fool
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
greatness understanding virtue
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
disease decay slender
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
choices liberty littles
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
writing want ifs
If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
eye men thinking
Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.
together faults lines
Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
useless exception
No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
imagination existence
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
moon air may
A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century
pain lying mean
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.
practice speech opinion
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
translations
Poetry cannot be translation
soul may firsts
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.