Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hop >>

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely give >>

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not >>

Quotations about Metaphysics

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature an >>

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think c >>

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. >>

The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

Johnson, Samuel