Will Johnson
Will Johnson
excellence lifetime labor
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
suffering survivor
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
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.
education experts good-and-evil
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
happiness success men
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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.