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

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.

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.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

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.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.