It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 6 April 1775 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.