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

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

there is no reasoning with imagination.

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

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.