What ills from beauty spring

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Beauty Quotes

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

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

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things

Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and...

Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not...

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is...

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.