Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best:-there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

[...] for the Doctor observed, that no man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him; and that, in short,…

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

All of us owe a vast debt to Huxley, especially all of us of English speech, for it was he, more than any other man, who worked that great change in human thou…

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant perso…

And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.