Will Johnson
Will Johnson
crowds glory virtue
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!
law judging gold
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
vegetables offending spirit
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
grief exercise useless
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
obscurity haste pernicious
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
hero remarkable has-beens
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
regret war hero
Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From age to age in everlasting debt; Wreaths which at last the dear-bought right convey To rust on medals, or on stones decay.
history firsts
All history was at first oral.
kings real philosophy
We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
hope mind amusement
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
ignorance guilty crime
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
ignorance
Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.
beef cows culinary
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
preparation way trouble
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.