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...
More quotations from Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
More quotations tagged with “autumn”
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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