5 James Boswell Quotes on Psychology

James Boswell quotes on psychology

3. The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.

9. Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!

12. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

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

16. [...] 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, this affectation of candour or modesty was but another kind of indirect self-praise, and had its foundation in vanity.