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.

March 13, 2025

2 years ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

July 2, 2025

1 year ago

Fame is a vapor; popularity is an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

November 22, 2025

11 months ago

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

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