Business Was His Aversion; Pleasure Was His

Possessed, As Are All The Fair Daughters Of Eve, Of An Hereditary Propensity, Transmitted To Them Undiminished Through Succeeding Generations, To Be 'soonmoved Withtheslightesttouch Of Blame'; Very Little Precept And Practice Will Confirm Them In The Habit, And Instruct Them All The Maxims, Of Self-justification.

Our Pleasures In Literature Do Not, I Think, Decline With Age; Last 1st Of January Was My Eighty-second Birthday, And I Think That I Had As Much Enjoyment From Books As I Ever Had In My Life.

We Are All Apt To Think That An Opinion That Differs From Our Own Is A Prejudice.

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

An Orator Is The Worse Person To Tell A Plain Fact.