I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.