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

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

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.

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

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!