Justice satisfies everybody.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

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

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

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.