Samuel Johnson Quotes
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
See {632269} for a later Scottish quotation on this principle.
Presidential assistant Sherman Adams was rumored to have accepted gifts for favors. Adams resigned in disgrace a few months later.
[This has the sound, textural and physical structure of a wonderful quotation. However it does not comport with reality. The second clause does, but the first is contradicted by many who have made money honestly and then had a revelation of one type or another. And then of course there are so many of the thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]
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".
