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.

Confidence is the best proof of love.

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

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

Nature's hasty conscience.

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