Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

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

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

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

How success changes the opinion of men!

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