Samuel Johnson Quote

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.


The Rambler: In Four Volumes (ed. 1761)


To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different...

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different...

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different...

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different...