Samuel Johnson Quotes
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Charles Dilly, 1791.
One of the earliest expressions of the better late than never concept.
Paulson, Michael Bloomberg and other politicians who had vast business experience were beginning a campaign to show the great danger to the economy of climate change and global warming.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office
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".
