A Love-match Was The Only Thing For

It Is Unjust And Absurd Of Those Advancing In Years, To Expect Of The Young That Confidence Should Come All And Only On Their Side: The Human Heart, At Whatever Age, Opens Only To The Heart That Opens In Return.

... 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.

Idleness, Ennui, Noise, Mischief, Riot, And A Nameless Train Of Mistaken Notions Of Pleasure, Are Often Classed, In A Young Man's Mind, Under The General Head Of Liberty.

The Bore Is Good For Promoting Sleep; But Though He Causeth Sleep In Others, It Is Uncertain Whether He Ever Sleeps Himself; As Few Can Keep Awake In His Company Long Enough To See. It Is Supposed That When He Sleeps It Is With His Mouth Open.

I ... Practiced All The Arts Of Apology, Evasion, And Invisibility, To Which Procrastinators Must Sooner Or Later Be Reduced.