Quote #96
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
More from Samuel Johnson
- New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
- He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observatio…
- His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
- A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, …
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.