Johnson Destroyed

Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or destroyed:

    That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith (1771–1845)