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Quotation by Samuel Johnson

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted by Robert Barclay in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, appendix, ed. John Wilson Croker (1847).
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