I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

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.

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