You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions.

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absur

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.