Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.