John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4064 Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4064 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) |
| QUOTATION: | There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Life of Johnson (Boswell). 2 Vol. vi. Chap. iii. 1776. |
| Note 1. Whoe’er has travell’d life’s dull round, Where’er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. William Shenstone: Written on a Window of an Inn. [back] |
| Note 2. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835. Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back] |