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

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

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

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

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.