Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
Samuel JohnsonYou may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
Samuel JohnsonOur minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
Samuel Johnson