Samuel Johnson Quotes About Earth

• I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Son, Science

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

• I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Art, Son

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

• The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Men, Air

  Samuel Johnson (1940). “The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings”

• Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

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