Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of political zealots; of men, who being numbered, they know not how or why, in any of the parties that divide a state, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom […]
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave, and one half cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting: but being all cowards, we go on very well.
Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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 […]
