Johnson, Samuel

As Samuel Johnson said, “when a man knows he is to be hanged … it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

But all too often, as Samuel Johnson famously pointed out, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

This society was set up in 1928, to celebrate the work of Samuel Johnson.

As Samuel Johnson wrote, “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, 'was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty' in his ill days.

Samuel Johnson, too, had a young-lady friend once "with the acutest intellect I have ever known."

Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."

I gave Paoli the character of my revered friend Mr. Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson, although he was very sorry to be poor, “was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty” in his ill days.