Samuel Johnson Quote

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.


The Rambler (ed. 1791)


A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not...

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not...

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not...

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not...