Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud... →
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little... →
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
Shawn Johnson
I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your... →