Quotes by Johnson

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a co >>

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superi >>

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how li >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. >>

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold i >>

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of >>

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. So books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when opened again, will again impart instruction.

Johnson