No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.