Avarice is always poor.
Samuel Johnson Quotes
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of […]
In questions difficult or dangerous, it is indeed natural to repose upon authority, and, when fear happens to predominate, upon the authority of those whom we do not in general think wiser than ourselves.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
It is advantageous to an authour, that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings… Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose […]
The present age, if we consider chiefly the state of our own country, may be stiled with great propriety The Age of Authors; for, perhaps, there never was a time, in which men of all degrees of ability, of every kind of education, of every profession and employment, were posting with ardour so general to […]
