Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or village:
“Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“The village appeared to me a great news room.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)