Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Samuel JohnsonI found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules
Samuel JohnsonWhile an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: writing humour literature
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel JohnsonΚανένα μέρος δεν προβάλλει τόσο έντονα τη ματαιότητα των ανθρώπινων ελπίδων, όσο μια δημόσια βιβλιοθήκη
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: libraries βιβλιοθήκες
No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: a-man-s-drink-hero-s-drink
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
Samuel JohnsonAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: travel tip-of-thought
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: understanding-others frustration respect effort educational
Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
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