Quotes about Johnson

Johnson, Collins, Fielding, and Thomson, were certainly four of the most distinguished persons that England produced during the eighteenth century. It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.