We never do anything well until we cease to think about the manner of doing it

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest

Shall not be long but I'll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.