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
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
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability
I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Though I love to spend, I hate be cheated, and I found that to build is to be robbed.
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford