Will Johnson
Will Johnson
success pleasure difficulty
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
imagination expectations arrogance
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
morning food years
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
musical sensual vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
curiosity mind degrees
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
perseverance writing effort
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
time mind dresses
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
perseverance determination persistence
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
fairness
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
cities squares wish
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.
translators
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
writing suffering lovers
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
useless poet
To a poet nothing can be useless.
marriage wedding people
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.