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

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

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

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

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