Will Johnson
Will Johnson
money tree fruit
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
arrogance unhappy arrogant
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
fate arrogance world
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
retirement pits actors
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.
wise husband infidelity
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
grateful race insulting
Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
pretty-woman risk driving
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
pain curiosity desire
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
statistics poet individual
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.
money men affluence
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
life art novelty
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
sleep animal vegetables
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.
sorrow together would-be
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
deceit chill benevolence
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.