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.

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.

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

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

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

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.