Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.