Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

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

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.

... 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.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

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

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?