Quote #16352
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Category Archives: Johnson
Quote #16288
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more...
Quote #16154
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which...
Quote #15821
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and...
Quote #15706
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to...
Quote #15723
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees...
Quote #15760
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Quote #15418
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather...
Quote #15356
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by...
Quote #15362
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages;...