Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. – Samuel Johnson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates