He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.
Samuel JohnsonNever speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
Samuel JohnsonA few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson