Confidence Is The Best Proof Of Love.

Business Was His Aversion; Pleasure Was His Business.

[on Collectors Of Quotations:] How Far Our Literature May In Future Suffer From These Blighting Swarms, Will Best Be Conceived By A Glance At What They Have Already Withered And Blasted Of The Favourite Productions Of Our Most Popular Poets.

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

No Man Ever Distinguished Himself Who Could Not Bear To Be Laughed At.

How Is It That Hope So Powerfully Excites, And Fear So Absolutely Depresses All Our Faculties?