Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.