The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
Samuel JohnsonWhat a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
Samuel JohnsonPointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
Samuel Johnson