An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Nature's hasty conscience.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.