Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
Johnson, Samuel. "No. 172." The Rambler, vol. 5, J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 214.
Although there are rich people who are fools, having inherited their wealth or were lucky, but rarely does anyone refer to a rich person in those kinds of derogatory terms. They may be called unprincipled, nasty, greedy, but generally not stupid.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Twain was very perspicacious in observing that the populations of many countries often act against their own apparent material self interest in order to establish and feel a sense of dignity, manhood, honor or ethnic pride.
L. P. Jacks. This lecture was given well before the development of the atomic bomb, after which many politicians and intellectual leaders picked up on this theme. Then each generation since has echoed it.
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".
