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

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

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

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

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.