3 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Future

Samuel Johnson quotes on future

8. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

40. Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

78. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.