Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.


The Rambler: In Four Volumes.. (ed. 1784)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without...

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without...

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without...

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without...