Will Johnson
Will Johnson
inspirational criticism flattery
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
detours states enjoy
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
despair may overcoming
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
ivy wife ruins
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.
law definitions maxims
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
purpose use paper
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
vices pleasure
Pleasure itself is not a vice
praise falsehood
None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.
pain relaxation may
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
religion church dangerous
To be of no Church is dangerous.
secret credit scandal
As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.
secret guilt secrecy
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
revenge coward defense
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
sorrow leisure sentimental
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.