Quotes Library

April 27, 2025

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English poet, critic, lexicographer, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 1770, Jay p.197

Do the poor inspire compassion, or are they just annoying? Shiftless scammers?

Johnson puts it well, and simply so.

June 25, 2025

1 year ago

Sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

November 14, 2025

12 months ago

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

June 7, 2025

1 year ago

If the essential rights of sovereignty…be taken away, the Commonwealth is thereby dissolved

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