“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big wh...”

“Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”