Samuel Johnson Quotes
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Johnson, Samuel. An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers. J. Roberts, 1744, p. 180.
General Butler, when acting as Military Governor of New Orleans, requisitioned $80,000 from a local bank which he never accounted for. In a later legal action, he was reproached by a lawyer for the bank, asking what Butler's neighbors back in Massachusetts would think of his action. This was his response.
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".
