Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

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

Confidence is the best proof of love.

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

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.

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