Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

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.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

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

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

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.