Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single biographical work in the whole of literature," James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth18 September 1709
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man
To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.
What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches