No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
— Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
— Samuel Johnson
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
— Samuel Johnson
(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.
— Samuel Johnson
Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.
— Samuel Johnson
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight and with which he did not always willingly cooperate and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
— Samuel Johnson
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson