Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or building:
“I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)