Johnson Believed

Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or believed:

“Long-expected one and twenty
Ling’ring year at last is flown,
Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty,
Great Sir John, are all your own.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet to its god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)