Will Johnson
Will Johnson
loss advantage politeness
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
christian religious thinking
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
failure failing ashamed
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
fate exercise men
Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
wise country wall
No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.
successful moderation firmness
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
patience struggle may
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
food men dinner
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
enough beats
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
law principles increase
As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
law benefits suits
Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
law ruffian relentless
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
law opposites rocks
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.
funny humor fishing
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.