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

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

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.

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

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.