Samuel Johnson Quotes
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Charles Dilly, 1791.
The tavern was named after George Washington.
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".