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
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Whatever you have spend less.
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
It is our first duty to serve society.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.