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

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.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

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?