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

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

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

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