B.S. Johnson Quotes
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.
How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.
There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
