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
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.
Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.