Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when >>

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human >>

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Re >>

Quotations about Calamity

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune >>

Calamity is man's true touchstone. >>

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. >>

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Johnson, Samuel