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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever! - [Immortality] How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure. - [Heart] Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. - [Happiness] Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. - [Life] Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. - [Imitation] Humanly speaking, there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury, and if he is overcome, you share his guilt. - [Temptation] Hunger is never delicate. - [Appetite] Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. - [Hypocrisy] I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed. - [Subordination] I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. - [Education] I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. - [Words] I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. - Seward's "Johnsoniana", 617 [Women] I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. - [Wedlock] I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. - [Matrimony] I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. - [Truth] I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. - [Clergymen] I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. - [Vanity] I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. - [Aphorisms] I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. - [Enemies] I have heard him assert, that a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity. - [Taverns] I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it. - [Wit] I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober. - [Melancholy] I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. - [Skepticism] I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. - [Youth] I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop. - [Contradiction] Displaying page 10 of 37 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
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