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 world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
More quotations tagged with “kindness”
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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