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...
life summer flower
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
nature men envy
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
nature rain animal
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
patience vain duty
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
patience reign ill
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
patience evil attention
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
cutting rocks poetry
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
essence poetry delight
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
lying men long
I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
passion evil imagination
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.
teacher masters great-teaching
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
evil degrees reason
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
evil moral left
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
rome culture elegance
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance