Will Johnson
Will Johnson
guilt despair bars
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
anticipation species
Hope is itself a species of happiness...
wise men hands
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
intellectual statistics leisure
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
examination fraud dread
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
trust cheating pain
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
carpe-diem men focus
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
inspirational teaching learning
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
anticipation conditions
Hope is necessary in every condition.
names giving civilized-nations
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
revenge passion justice
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
rich-poor would-be frugal
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
patriotic patriotism lasts
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
life lying wind
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.