"Slow Rises Worth / By Poverty Deprest"

According to Facebook's Which Eighteenth-Century Tory Are You, I am Dr Johnson:

"Of course you'd be a disastrous leader, but life and London wouldn't be the same without you. You display the true faith of the Jacobite through multiple personality disorders, you insult almost everybody, and still everybody loves you. Modern equivalent: cousin Boris (the picture even looks like him)."

Newman wrote that "the special title of moralist in English literature is accorded by the public voice to Johnson, whose bias towards Catholicity is well known".

Johnson told Boswell that he thought Catholicism fundamentally different from other forms of Christianity, and certainly preferable to Presbyterianism, with Mass, Confession, Purgatory, prayers for the dead, invocation of the Saints, and so on, all more objectionable in practice than in principle, indeed in principle hardly objectionable at all.

Boswell records Johnson's saying that he would "be glad to be of a church where there are so many helps to get to heaven", and even that he "would be a Papist" were it not for "an obstinate rationality" which he hoped to be able to overcome "on the near approach of death", of which he had "a very great terrour".