Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is ent >>

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to >>

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they cho >>

Quotations about Letters

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which ma >>

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of fals >>

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave beh >>

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

Johnson, Samuel