Great Thoughts Reduced To Practice Become Great

Most Of The Methods For Measuring The Lapse Of Time Have, I Believe, Been The Contrivance Of Monks And Religious Recluses, Who, Finding Time Hang Heavy On Their Hands, Were At Some Pains To See How They Got Rid Of It.

Vice Is Man's Nature: Virtue Is A Habit -- Or A Mask. . . . The Foregoing Maxim Shows The Difference Between Truth And Sarcasm.

The Art Of Conversation Is The Art Of Hearing As Well As Of Being Heard.

The Essence Of Poetry Is Will And Passion.

The Art Of Pleasing Consists In Being Pleased.