Johnson Quotes
Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
A successful author is equally in danger of diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases.
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
Words are the daughters of the earth, and things are the sons of heaven.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellencies which are farthest from our attainment, because knowing our defects we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances.