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

Nature's hasty conscience.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Justice satisfies everybody.