I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.