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
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
Round numbers are always false.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.