Samuel Johnson Quotes


We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.


Citations

Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Charles Dilly, 1791.

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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
  • Born: September 18, 1709
  • Died: December 13, 1784
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Moralist, Literary Critic, Biographer, Editor, Lexicographer

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".