Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Weitere Zitate von Samuel Johnson
Zum Autor"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
"Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."
"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."
"Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned."
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."