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
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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.
Language is the dress of thought.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.