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
There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
Riches seldom make their owners rich.
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford
Dublin, though a place much worse than London, is not so bad as Iceland.