Famous quotes containing the words samuel johnson, late and/or johnson:
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The saddest of all kings
Crowned, and again discrowned.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)