Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer (creator of dictionaries). The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".