It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.