Business Was His Aversion; Pleasure Was His

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

Obtain Power, Then, By All Means; Power Is The Law Of Man; Make It Yours.

Bishop Wilkins Prophesied That The Time Would Come When Gentlemen, When They Were To Go On A Journey, Would Call For Their Wings As Regularly As They Call For Their Boots.

[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've A Great Fancy To See My Own Funeral Afore I Die.