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
The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.
What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing
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.
A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good
Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.