JOHNSON, SAMUEL

1. Rough Johnson, the great moralist.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt  end of it.—GOLDSMITH, Boswell: Life
   

3. The great English moralist. Never was a descriptive epithet more nicely appropriate than that! Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.—HAWTHORNE, Our Old Home
   

4. Here lies poor Johnson; reader have a care;
   Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear.
   Religious, moral, generous, and humane
   He was; but self-sufficient, rude, and vain;
   Ill-bred, and overbearing in dispute,
   A scholar and a Christian and a brute.—SOAME JENYNS, Epitaph on Samuel Johnson
   

5. You must not mind me, madam; I say strange things, but I mean no harm.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

6. What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries.—MACAULAY
   

7. The conversation of Johnson is strong and clear, and may be compared to an antique statue, where every vein and muscle is distinct and bold. Ordinary conversation resembles an inferior cast.—THOMAS PERCY
   

8. I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns as Johnson did when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit.—BERNARD SHAW, Parents and Children
   

9. The great Cham of literature.—SMOLLETT