The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.