As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns

The idle singer of an empty day.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.