“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand.”

“All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.”

“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”