Every quotation contributes something to the stability or…

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive…

— Samuel Johnson

“I found that the last line in my Concordance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson’s quotation of Goldsmith’s fine…

— Samuel Johnson

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

— Samuel Johnson

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

— Samuel Johnson

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds…

— Bertrand Russell

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in…

— John Woolman

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means…

— Andrea Bocelli

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

— William Ellery Channing

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world,…

— Romano Prodi

The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing,…

— John Owen

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements…

— William Bligh

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those…

— Ordway Tead