Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or building:
“Still raise for good the supplicating voice,
But leave to heaven the measure and the choice,”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)