Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.